Reports: Streaming

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MIDiA Research Predictions 2017
The Year Of The Platform

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Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller
As we correctly predicted, 2016 was the year video ate the world. 2017 is going to be shaped by the battle for consumer attention through formatting and distribution wars. VR is likely to cede further ground to AR, bots will become established, while messaging apps add to their dominant position (even though user growth will slow).
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Paid Content Consumer Deep Dive
The Emergence Of A Sophisticated Audience

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Zach Fuller
In the old world, there were clear demarcations between media types, bordered with proprietary media and playback devices. However, different entertainment forms now exist in more interdependent ecosystems than they did in the analogue era, with all-in-one app stores blurring the boundaries and turning media consumption into an amorphous whole wher...
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Spotify User Profile
An Increasingly Mainstream Yet Digitally Sophisticated Audience

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Mark Mulligan
Spotify is the poster child of streaming music, having done more than any other company to grow the segment and to prove the freemium business model at scale. It has built an active user base that outshines any other freemium music service, and through tactics such as telco bundles and pricing discounts continues to squeeze every last drop of oppor...
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After The Album
How Playlists Are Re-Defining Music Consumption

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming hit a host of milestones in 2015, reaching 67.5 million subscribers and driving $2.9 billion of trade revenue, up 31% on 2014. While the competitive marketplace upped the ante, music services wielded curation to drive differentiation. Playlists have always been the core currency of streaming, but now more than ever they are becoming the b...
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Telco Music Strategy
Ironing Out The Strategic Kinks As Objectives Evolve

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Mark Mulligan
In a few short years, telco music bundles have gone from a useful ancillary revenue stream to a core component of the streaming landscape. Despite long standing issues about how success can best be measured, telcos continue to invest heavily in music deals that are unlikely to ever deliver direct profit but that instead help drive metrics across th...
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Global Music Forecasts 2015-2020
Declining Legacy Formats Cancel Out Streaming Growth

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Mark Mulligan
In a few short years streaming has gone from being an interesting sideshow to the most important component of the recorded music market in terms of impact, innovation and disruption, though not in revenue terms. Indeed streaming still only represents 16% of all recorded music revenue but its growth is directly impacting virtually every other aspect...
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